DAVID Cameron will be in Birmingham for the annual Conservative Party conference next month, along with an estimated 13,500 delegates, exhibitors and journalists.

DAVID Cameron will be in Birmingham for the annual Conservative Party conference next month, along with an estimated 13,500 delegates, exhibitors and journalists.

But the Tories aren’t the only party to choose Birmingham for their event.

The United Kingdom Independence Party is also hosting its annual conference at Birmingham Town Hall this week.

Speakers will include West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass, UKIP’s transport spokesman. Other key speakers include former Radio One DJ Mike Read. He’s a UKIP supporter and is described by the party as an “icon of TV and radio”.

* MEANWHILE, West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire, pictured, is to launch her own party called “We Demand a Referendum”, in a bid to force the Government to give the nation a vote on leaving the EU.

The party will stand candidates across the country in the 2014 European elections – including former apprentice star Katie Hopkins.

Ms Sinclaire, who is an independent MEP representing the West Midlands, scored a major upset last year when she managed to gather 100,000 signatures on a petition demanding a debate in the House of Commons.

This led to a major rebellion among Tory MPs, when a debate was held and 79 Conservatives defied the Prime Minister and voted for a referendum.

* NEW Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has come in for some stick for signing a Commons motion back in 2007 which praised “the positive contribution made to the health of the nation by the NHS homeopathic hospitals”.

Homeopathy is a form of treatment rejected by most scientists and mainstream medical professionals as a superstition which can’t cure anything.

Mr Hunt isn’t alone in thinking the NHS should continue spending around £4 million a year on the treatment.

It was also signed by London Labour MP Diane Abbot, currently a shadow health minister on the Labour front bench.

* SHREWSBURY MP Dan Kawczynski (Con) is determined to back dairy farmers in his constituency – and puts his money where his mouth is, he told MPs. He said: “My daughter and I go every Saturday to Waitrose, because it is the supermarket that pays most to dairy farmers.”

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